Two things:

1. Teagan and Sarah are LESBIANS?  That explains why I saw them open for the Indigo Girls.  I couldn't figure it out...

2. Fascination with lesbians is bizzare?


----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> Good lord indeed.  Andrea, I'm not saying that the record isn't 
> good, 
> or that this is the *only* reason certain people like it.  What 
> I've 
> heard of SO JEALOUS I quite like, although I wasn't crazy about 
> the 
> one before it and I've never heard the first one that's supposedly 
> a 
> lot more folky and acoustic.  What I said -- which I stand by -- 
> is 
> that this album has gotten A LOT more mainstream critical 
> attention 
> than many aesthetically similar and equally good albums (for 
> example, 
> Destroyer's friggin' awesome YOUR BLUES, another Canadian album 
> with 
> very similar '80s new wave aspirations, has been ignored pretty 
> much 
> everywhere), and given that the sisters' sexual orientation is 
> invariably mentioned in the very first sentence of every one of 
> these 
> reviews that I've seen, I have to assume that at least part of 
> what's 
> going on here is the bizarre fascination with lesbians that *some* 
> men 
> exhibit.
> 
> In case that's not clear enough, let me reiterate that it was that 
> "ooh, look, lesbians!" mentality that I was mocking, not Tegan and 
> Sara themselves.
> 
> S
> 
>